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Steve Ballmer is the richest team owner in the world, according to a list released by Forbes of the world's wealthiest billionaires. The list has Ballmer as the 35th richest man in the world, with a net worth of $21.5 billion. Ballmer closed the deal to buy the Clippers last August for an NBA record-setting $2 billion after former Clippers' owner Donald Sterling was banned from the NBA for life following racially insensitive remarks that he made on an audio recording that was released to the public. The Clippers are in fifth place in the Western Conference with a record of 39-21, only four games behind the second-place Memphis Grizzlies and eight and a half games behind the...

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Steve Ballmer is the richest team owner in the world, according to a list released by Forbes of the world's wealthiest billionaires.
The list has Ballmer as the 35th richest man in the world, with a net worth of $21.5 billion.
Ballmer closed the deal to...

Questions and answers about where we stand now that the San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders and St. Louis Rams are all mulling a relocation to the nation's second-largest market:
Does this mean the Chargers and Raiders are moving to the Los Angeles area?...

Former NBA standout Jerome Kersey died Wednesday at age 52 in Oregon from a blood clot that traveled from his left calf to his left lung, the state medical examiner said.
The versatile small forward spent his first 11 professional seasons with the...

Even though St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke, the league's second-richest owner to Seattle's Paul Allen, has announced plans for an 80,000-seat football stadium in Hollywood Park, and has the financial and political wherewithal to get it done, the NFL is...

Even though St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke, the league’s second-richest owner to Seattle’s Paul Allen, has announced plans for an 80,000-seat football stadium in Hollywood Park, and has the financial and political wherewithal to get it done, the NFL is...

Former NFL quarterback and football analyst Boomer Esaison believes Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman should be punished for remarks he made about NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
Shortly after the...

After last year's fatal crash, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic will now test its new SpaceShipTwo rocket without its longtime aerospace partner that designed and built the first plane.
Since 2005, Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites, a firm famous in...

The owner of the St. Louis Rams plans to build an NFL stadium in Inglewood, which could pave the way for the league's return to Los Angeles.
Rams owner Stan Kroenke, who bought 60 acres adjacent to the Forum a year ago, has joined forces with the...

When Clint Dempsey made the decision to leave the English Premier League for the Seattle Sounders and Major League Soccer last year, he said one of the things that drew him to the city was that it reminded him of Europe.
And he wasn't talking about the...

The tutued young woman, the court interpreter and the middle-aged dad wearing a jester's cap in Seattle Seahawks colors traipsed down to the Living Computer Museum here Saturday morning with a single goal in mind.
They wanted to help stamp out Ebola....

Paul Allen, billionaire owner of sports teams and mega yachts, on Thursday pledged at least $100 million to fight Ebola in what is believed to be the largest private foundation gift to combat the deadly disease and support healthcare workers in West...

Steve Ballmer delivered many lessons this fall to the 80 students who squeezed their way into his much-anticipated class at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Never forget, the former Microsoft chief executive told them, that at the heart of every...

TrueCar.com, the Internet car-shopping company backed by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen and insurance giant USAA, plans an initial public stock offering.The Santa Monica company has grown rapidly over the last year by offering a platform for car...

Jack Ramsay, a Hall of Fame basketball coach who led the Portland Trail Blazers to the 1977 NBA championship before he became a broadcaster, died in his sleep early Monday in Naples, Fla., the team announced. He was 89.
Ramsay coached in the NBA for...

As NBA Commissioner Adam Silver prepared to announce sanctions against Clippers owner Donald Sterling on Tuesday morning in the wake of controversial remarks allegedly made by Sterling, other team owners rendered verdicts on their embattled...

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver acted swiftly in punishing Clippers owner Donald Sterling for his purported comments about blacks, and folks around the NBA were almost just as quick in supporting their new boss on social media.
Commissioner Silver thank...

Donald Sterling has no intention of selling the Clippers.
At least that's what he told Fox News reporter Jim Gray just moments before Commissioner Adam Silver announced that he would urge the rest of the NBA owners to force Sterling to sell the team.
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As part of the NBA's sweeping sanctions against Clippers owner Donald Sterling over his controversial racial remarks, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is urging the league's other owners to push for the Clippers' sale.
Silver said that if three-quarters of...

After the coffee. Before getting ready to fly back to D.C.
The Skinny: Traveling to D.C. on Saturday for Passover on Monday. Given the cost of flying and renting a car, this will be a very expensive Seder. Don't worry, eating matzo won't stop me from...

CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves remains the king of media compensation.
The 64-year-old television executive and Beverly Hills resident was awarded a $66.9-million compensation package last year, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission...